David Epstein

Shares counterintuitive advice on the most effective path to success in any domain while revealing the essential contributions of generalist, not specialist, team members

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Range

In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of athletic success, award-winning writer David Epstein gets to the heart of the great nature vs. nurture debate, and explodes myths about how and why humans excel. Along the way, Epstein exposes the flaws in the so-called 10,000-hour rule that states that rigorous practice from a young age is the only route to success. He shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not - like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball player - and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like the motivation to practice, might in fact have important genetic components. Throughout, The Sports Gene forces us to rethink the very nature of success.

Talent, Practice and the Truth about Success

The Sports Gene

Epstein investigates the relationship between the ineffable art of music and the hard science of neurobiology. He integrates philosophic and scientific inquiry to formulate a theory of the fundamental yet elusive quality in music time. Derived from an analytical study of motion, tempo and emotion, Shaping Time offers a theory of the way we percieve, perform and interpret music. Epstein suggests that audience satisfaction with a musical performance results from timing trajectories established by the performer at the beginning of the piece. When the timing of a performance conflicts with audience anticipation, listeners experience physical and affective discomfort. Epstein applies his thesis to a wide range of examples for the repertoire.

Music, the Brain, and Performance

Shaping Time

Range EXPORT

Warum gerade sie in einer spezialisierten Welt erfolgreicher sind

Es lebe der Generalist!

Frank Avery was a Nobel Prize winner in physics who was delivering his latest series of college lectures in a curriculum he pioneered. Little did he know that there were forces at work to co-opt his program and pirate it for questionable activities. With elements of intrigue, espionage, humor, and a cast of characters from around the globe, Frank is thrust into worlds he vaguely recognizes. He is ultimately infused into the smallest of realms, starting his adventures in and out of microspace.

Adventures In Microspace

Lawrence Ponoroff

Bruce Markell

Making and Doing Deals is a book that your students will learn from long after they graduate. It is also a book that should be fun for you to teach from. It's a book that students will enjoy, and, therefore, a book that they will read. Since the First Edition, students have been reading Making and Doing Deals because the cases, problems, and text not only help them learn what they need to know as first-year law students, but also address the real-world problems and situations they will encounter after their final exam.

Cases and Materials on Contracts, Making and Doing Deals - Casebookplus

Examining the elements of musical structure and the ways they provide unity, coherence and uniqueness in classic-romantic music, the author defines the concept of Grundgestalt, or basic shape and follows its development from the music of the classic-romantic Viennese school to the twelve-tone compositions of Schoenberg.

Studies in Musical Structure

Beyond Orpheus

THE STORY: Three lifelong buddies, Vietnam vets, are about to pay off a balloon on money borrowed from a local heavy. They meet at their New Jersey bar and grill to set up for a celebration: After years of hard work, they will finally own the pla

Exact Change

Sharyn O'Halloran

In this path-breaking book, David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran produce the first unified theory of policy making between the legislative and executive branches. Examining major US policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992, the authors describe the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion, and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy. In doing so, the authors synthesize diverse and competitive literatures, from transaction cost and principal-agent theory in economics, to information models developed in both economics and political science, to substantive and theoretical work on legislative organization and on bureaucratic discretion.

A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making Under Separate Powers

Delegating Powers

Vietnamese edition of David Epstein's Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. According to the publisher, 'Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive...' Vietnamese translation by Ton That Ky Van.

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